Jeffrey Dahmer utterly fascinates me. Always has done. His story is so sad and tragic, so lost and desperate, and so completely horrific, that for 25 years I have been a wee bitty obsessed! I have always looked behind the face of the monster, and researched to death what could have made him turn out the way he did.
When David Jacobsen's Jeremy Renner starring Dahmer was released in 2002, I fell so much in love with it that even I realised how kinda nuts I was! :) What I loved so much about this film, and what made it all the more horrific, was that it DIDN'T focus on all of the gorier details of his story....quite the opposite. It was just a really melancholic film....and worse...one I could totally relate to so much of. I think that's why so many people hated it....it scared them because it showed him as a human being.
What infuriates me most about his story was the shocking lack of help he received throughout his life. Dahmer is the ultimate story of an individual who constantly slipped through the cracks of society. A man so riddled with loneliness and guilt at being different, he lost himself completely. And this cost 17 young men their lives!
My Friend Dahmer was originally published in a shorter form in 2002. 2002 being a VERY good year to be a Dahmer fan FYI, haha. Author/artist Derf Backderf wasn't happy with it though....knowing there was so much more to be told to this story. So he literally went back to the drawing board and in 2012 he released his full graphic novel to a mass of critical acclaim.
Like David Jacobsen's Dahmer, My Friend Dahmer is a coming of age tale...just one with a horrific outcome. But one I think we can ALL relate to in some way....even if we don't like to admit to it!
Playing Dahmer is 20 year old Ross Lynch. I had never heard of this Disney star/musician before, but after checking him out, I can totally see him having the potential to play a really special part.
Looking at the kind of films director Marc Meyers has previously made, I still need to check them out but he really seems to have an incredible grasp on coming of age melancholy, which is EXACTLY what we need for this project.
Checking his films out are one of my top priorities this week when I actually have a well deserved week off! :) Needless to say....I am super psyched about this film!
So we have just passed the 19th anniversary of the murder of Jeffrey Dahmer, my ultimate serial killer fascination, yesterday, the 28th November.
"In those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them." - Revelation 9:6
I admit, to some my love of Dahmer may come across rather morbid, but I never actually mean it to be like that. I am just utterly fascinated by just how far he was willing to go, just to not be left alone. I just find his story to be really sad. Both for his victims, their families, his family, and Dahmer himself.
I mean, just put yourself in his position....so desperate to not be on your own you try to create your own fucking zombies. The act of a sane man of course! Dahmer was only caught after a potential victim got away and alerted the police to him. By this point it was like he wanted to be caught. Tracy Edwards, who was 32 at the time may have escaped his fate at the hands of Dahmer, but tragically he never received any counseling or anything to help him deal with the whole media circus that enveloped him the moment those policemen entered Dahmer's apartment.
Edwards was sentenced in January 2012 after being involved in the death of a homeless man like himself, after he was pushed to his death off a bridge by a third homeless man. Edwards was sentenced to one and a half years in prison, along with 2 years extended supervision. One can only hope that this time in jail is theraputic for Edwards, who essentially still died that day he escaped Dahmer. You can read my thoughts on how mortified I was to learn that Edwards received no post traumatic stress disorder therapy from the state of Wisconsin in a blog I wrote after his arrest. One of my main points that I make, is one that X Files God Chris Carter made in the X Files Episode, Irresistible, which was based on Dahmer, featuring the character of Donnie Pfaster (pictured below), who later re-appeared in season 7 episode Orison.
"People wondered why it took them so long to catch this kid in Milwaukee. Thought someone should have noticed he was killing all those young boys. The truth is, no one ever believed it could happen."
Now I have written about Dahmer a bunch of times in the past, including how he inspired Chris Carter to create the Donnie Pfaster character and was his inspiration for Millennium. Rather than regurgitate the same old feelings again, why not just link you to a bunch of stuff I've done before. :) For a blog I wrote at the 20th anniversary of his capture, you can find it here.
And in fact, I loved the soundtrack that much that after I discovered you couldn't buy it, I totally went all stalkypants on the lovely ladies that did the music, and when I bought their album This Side of North, they sent me the Dahmer OST free. I then became friends with one of them, Christina Agamanolis, and in fact did an interview with her regarding her music and working on the film and stuff as part of my Women in Horror Recognition Month blogs. So yes, please do take a moment to check out all this stuff, especially if you're as morbidly curious as I am. And total Millennium loving X Philes. :)
And last but not least, I would like to reiterate, I do not condone what Dahmer did, but I do find it utterly fascinating. To quote the tagline from the David Jacobsen flick -
Okay so holy moly, fuck me sideways. Two of my ultimate most favourite actors ever are in a film together. Jeremy fucking Renner AND Christian fucking Bale!! Words escape me. This is freakin' Batman AND Hawkeye. EEEEEEEEEEEEE.
This is pretty much nerd porn if you ask me. Dodgy suits and all. Haha. This is from the wicked awesome director David O. Russell, who everyone nerds over Silver Linings Playbook...which I thought was alright, but not as amazing as everyone kept saying!! To me, this is the guy that did The Fighter, and more importantly, I Heart Huckabees. Check out the trailer for American Hustle below and let me know what you think. :)
Bearing in mind, this is two of the single greatest actors of our time...and the sexiest!! I love these guys more than I can ever express and to say I'm nerding about this flick is a total understatement. BWAH!!
And just to be gratuitous...here are a couple of pics of them both looking at their finest. Moooahahahaha. Both looking beautiful...and then super hot, Morley style!! ;)
Sexy Christan Bale.
Even SEXIER Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman!!
Sexy Jeremy Renner in one of my favourite pics of him from back in the day.
Even SEXIER THAN SEXY Jeremy Renner as Jeffrey Dahmer.
Ooh, and here's an extra added Renner pic showing his love for the Batman!! BWAH!! ;) Enjoy.
So whilst writing away, finishing off a bunch of Women in Horror posts I've been working on, I started thinking of songs to fit my mood. A lovely dark path then ensued and I figured, why not share some of my favourites from this selection of gore~geous female fronted bands.
First up, we have Jack Off Jill (singer Jessika Adams pictured above) - Strawberry Gashes...a song that I have pretty much played to death over time. I found this wicked video online to go with the song, very horror~ific and pretty rad. There's nothing prettier than the site of blood running down pale white flesh!!
Next up...My Ruin, doing a cover of Nick Cave's Do You Love Me. A song that suits Tairrie B's voice down to a cup of tea on a Sunday afternoon. Okay, fuck the tea...let's just go for the red wine and cigarettes instead. ;)
Like Jack Off Jill and My Ruin, Queen Adreena are a band I've long been a fan of and FM Doll is just an absolute fucking cracker of a song. In fact, when I first read the script for Jen and Sylvia Soska's American Mary, I totally wanted Tristan Risk's character Beatress Johnson (pictured below) to strip to this song. I'm now going for my own personal strip tease from Little Miss Risk...I'm sure she's that good that she could do it on cue!! BWAH!
For You I Hold My Breath, from Katie Jane Garside's solo project is the complete opposite of FM Doll, the sweet sound of painful melancholy.
After her painfully tender side...let's go back for some more Queen Adreena and beautiful screaming...Pretty Like Drugs indeed.
Another band from that time that I absolutely relished were the Aimee Echo fronted Human Waste Project, Drowned was a particular favourite track of mine.
Now for some of the uber hotness that is Christina Martinez...a woman who used to grace my walls. Boss Hog were totally rad in the fact that it was Christina and husband Jon Spencer...a potent combo if ever I heard one.
Fuck it, now I'm back in the 90's, had better get some Garbage...oh yessss!! The moment I saw the video for Queer on MTV (yes, back when MTV was actually decent!!), I was in love with this fellow Scot!!
As much as I fucking love Queer, I also have to give kudos to what is possibly my favourite Garbage song - The Trick is to Keep Breathing. Perfect song to be depressed too...and I have the old flatmates to vouch for me on this. Hi James, Ben and Bex!! *waves* :)
One of my ultimate favourite self indulgent songs is by the queen of self indulgent herself...of course I'm talking about that musically brilliant, more fucked up than 110% of the rest of society, Miss Courtney Love herself. That song would be Miss World, by Hole. And when someone comes home to find me sitting in the dark drinking a glass of wine with "I'm Miss World, somebody kill me. Kill me pills...nobody cares my friend" blasting away...I realise just how depressively self indulgent it actually sounds.
On a happier note...Echobelly's Dark Therapy, a song I associate with drinking in the Fishies when I was younger..then hanging out in graveyards with my best friend Nadine. Oh Dark Therapy...I love thee greatly!!
Whilst speaking of my darling Nadine...another band we both loved was Veruca Salt. Volcano Girls is a wicked track. And when it was then featured on satirical high school comedy Jawbreaker, it developed even more totally fucking rad~core awesome memories. Oh Rose McGowan....you devil you!! ;)
After Jack Off Jill split, gore~geous lead singer Jessika Adams went on to form Scarling. My favourite song of theirs is a close call between Baby Dracula and Crispin Glover. And let's face it...name me a horror~ific female who doesn't love Crispin Glover. Haha. ;) So fuck it....here's both tracks. Because they're both fucking awesome!!
My second last song, WOW...the first time I heard this...it felt like my heart had been ripped into a thousand pieces. This featured as the end credit song on the Dahmer soundtrack...a film about my favourite serial killer, and starring my future husband, Mr Jeremy Renner. EEEP!! It was totally rad that years later I actually became friends with one of the amazing women behind the score, and actually interviewed her for this very blog a couple of years back...an interview you can check out here.
And lastly, whilst not a girl...he sure likes to wear more make up than most women, and horror darling Rose McGowan is fucking AMAZING in this video. Oh, and it has Tiny from House of 1000 Corpses/Devil's Rejects in the video...and I love Tiny!! I've listened to this song an unhealthy amount of times, and it shall be played at my funeral. Because "All the drugs in this world, won't save her from herself!!"
Today marks the 20th Anniversary of the day that Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested...ending a 13 year killing spree that had started when Jeff was only 18 years old. By the time he was caught he had killed 17 men. Had the police officer that had stopped a drunken 18 year old Jeff with the body of Steven Hicks in his car actually looked in the bin bags in the back of the car that Jeff claimed to be clippings from the garden, he might still be alive today. As would 16 other men! And I'm pretty sure that officer would be able to live his life with a clearer conscious.
Dahmer was an incredibly troubled young man, and one that slipped through the eyes of the authorities on so many occasions. People may deem my fascination with Dahmer to be a strange one, but I have always been weirdly fascinated with this man. After the death of Steven Hicks it would be another nine years before Dahmer would kill again. Ashamed of the fact that he was gay, he always said that he believed the trigger for the four year killing spree that led to his imminent arrest, came when a man slipped him a note whilst he was sitting in the library offering him oral sex. Soon after, after one of his drinking binges, he awoke the next day with the bruised and battered to death body of Steven Tuomi lying next to him. He had no recollection of the murder and stuffed the body into a suitcase before disposing of it.
After this Dahmer went on a sporadic killing spree where he would kill another 15 men, including 14 year old Konerak Sinphasomphone, the brother of a boy he had been arrested for molesting. The twisted thing about Konerak is that he escaped whilst Dahmer was out, naked, bleeding and bruised though the cops ended up taking the word of the charming Jeff over two African American women who rightfully claimed Konerak was trying to escape from Jeff. Jeff said he was his boyfriend and that they had just been drinking and had too much too drink. They took Konerak back to Jeff's apartment, leaving him to his fate at the hand of the disturbed Jeff. The even more disturbing part about this was that the funky smell that filled their nostrils was the decomposing body of another of Jeff's victims...lying in HIS BEDROOM!!! This was just another example of how crap the police in Wisconsin actually were.
It was on the 22nd of July 1991 that Tracy Edwards escaped from Dahmer and brought the police back to his apartment, where they FINALLY clicked on to what was going on. By that time Jeff had killed 17 men. At the end of the day though, all he wanted was to be loved. To find a partner who wouldn't leave him. He wanted to create a zombie, and attempted on several occasions by drilling a hole in his victims head and pouring acid into it to keep the body 'alive'. When everything came to trial it wasn't a case of whether or not Jeff was guilty, it was whether he was sane or not! And at the end of the day the body count was reduced to 15 as they couldn't find evidence of two of the men. Dahmer was determined sane and got 15 life sentences, which totaled 957 years!
On the 28th November 1994, fellow inmate Christopher Scarver beat him to death with a broom handle...or at least pretty much to death...Dahmer died from severe head injuries whilst on his way to the hospital. Christopher Scarver said that God had told him to do it, although whether that is actually true, I doubt we'll ever know.
At the end of the day this is a tragic story, one that ended in the most horrific of ways. He was a truly sick man, and unfortunately like so many he, slipped through the cracks of a broken system.
Fascinated by the story of Jeff, X Files creator Chris Carter (A.K.A. GOD!!!) did an episode based on Jeff entitled Irresistible. When he submitted the script to the FOX executives they rejected the idea of the Jeff character Donnie Pfaster being a necrophiliac as it was unacceptable for broadcast standards. The character was then changed to a death fetishist. Irresistible is one of my all time favourite episodes and it is embodied in Dahmerisms! <3
For example, Tracy Edwards told police that it was almost like Dahmer shape shifted in some sense, that his face changed....like there was an inner lurking evil behind those eyes. The character of Donnie Pfaster shape shifted to an image of the devil when he had poor Scully captured. The cop that is assisting Mulder with the investigation mentions Dahmer -
People wondered why it took them so long to catch this kid in Milwaukee. Thought someone should have noticed he was killing all those young boys. The truth is, no one ever believed it could happen.
Another story I've heard was that when Nick Chinlund who played Donnie Pfaster (pictured above in character), when he was about to leave his car/trailer or whatever to start filming Irresistible, he heard on the radio that Dahmer had just died. I so badly want this to be true. How perfect would that be? At least if you're a Jeffrey Dahmer/X Files geekazoid! It is also noted that this episode actually inspired Chris Carter's spin-off show, Millennium! Again something I would LOVE to be true! (Edited to add that I spoke to Nick Chinlund about this, and it was indeed true.)
Greetings ghouls and boys, Happy Women in Horror Month DAY ONE!!! Mwah! Here I bring you an interview with the adorable, wonderfully talented Christina Agamanolis. Chris is one part of the awesome Siren Music Productions threesome that did the score for the David Jacobsen movie Dahmer. Dahmer stars one of my most favourite actors of all time (and one who is FINALLY getting the recognition he has deserved for a LONG TIME!!!), Mr Jeremy Renner!!! *insert lots of hearts and butterflies and stuff* ;) Sooooooooooooo..............
I love in the featurette on the DVD (R1…I refuse to have the R2 one as they have called it Dahmer: The Cannibal…grrrrr) where you speak about how on an emotional level you start to relate to some of the things he was going through, it’s a beautiful little part of the featurette and I felt that you perfectly summed up so much about what I love about the movie. Now I freely admit how much of a slight obsession I have with Jeffrey Dahmer, he fascinates me like no other serial killer. I feel empathy for him. You have made such an incredibly dark, yet touching soundtrack, did you feel that same kind of empathy?
A tricky question. I did feel empathy for the teenage Jeffrey Dahmer as David Jacobson depicted him in his film. In the movie, Jacobson introduced the young Dahmer right as he was discovering himself and his true passions. Not only was Dahmer figuring out that he was attracted to men, but also that he enjoyed the act of killing something. I can only imagine how alone, confused, and scared he felt at the revelation of what brought him true satisfaction/pleasure and how overwhelmed he must have been by the implications for how he would (or wouldn’t) fit in with normal society. (I felt Renner’s depiction of Dahmer during this time was incredibly insightful.) As teenagers, we all go through this trial and error period to figure out who we really are. Most times, even for “normal” people it is a very emotional period in one’s life. For Dahmer – not only the realization that he was attracted to men, but also of how different he was from everyone around him must have been horrifying. And think – back then there wasn’t the internet or blogs - any outlets for someone like him to research his condition or anonymously discuss his actions and feelings. He had to figure it out for himself – Could he live the way he wanted to, keeping all of his indiscretions secret – or should he reach out and get “help” - try to be a normal member of society. In the last scenes of the movie we watch him make this critical decision – and I think the way David wrote and directed these last moments of the film, and the way Renner acted them was brilliant.
Did you have any reservations about working on a movie about such a prolific serial killer?
No. I was mostly excited my co-workers and I (in Siren Music Productions - Mariana Bernoski, Willow Williamson, and myself) to get our first feature.
What did your friends and family say when you told them you were working on the movie? Were they mortified, disapproving or did you just get raised eyebrows all round?
Raised eyebrows for sure. Most people (again) were happy for us that we landed our first feature film. As for the subject matter, we got mixed feedback. Not disapproving – more like concerned, disturbed or grossed out. There were some people who were really into it too. I definitely remember having a few intense conversations with my mom (she was one of the ones who was concerned.)
How familiar were you with the story of Jeffrey Dahmer prior to shooting?
Pretty familiar. I grew up in Akron, Ohio. Dahmer grew up in Bath Township – only 15 minutes away. I remember the day when he got caught. I was in high school and the news circulated the school hallways. I even remember a girl crying in the bathroom – saying that she knew the family (perhaps even knew Dahmer himself) and that she couldn’t believe what was happening. We were all pretty shocked. Since he was from Ohio, the story was widely covered on our TV news reports.
I have never seen David Jacobson’s 1994 movie Criminal, I’m curious about it. Have you?
Nope! I’d really like to though – maybe tonight! I bet it’s really good.
If you go onto the IMDb message boards for Dahmer, one of the main topics that always comes up is people asking, “Who did the end title credits song?” How does it feel to have created something so beautiful and haunting that makes people instantly fall in love with it?
It feels wonderful. I’m so grateful that people like it. One of the main things that drives me to write music is to reach out to people – make that song or piece of music that people want to hear when they’re happy or sad… music that they turn to for comfort when they need to cry, or listen to when they want to cheer up. A song that people can really relate to. I feel like I’ve really accomplished something with Blue Theme.
The only thing that wasn’t so great is that we were never allowed to release the song or the Dahmer Soundtrack to the general public. We tried to when the film originally came out, but there were a lot of complications (legal and otherwise). The girls and I still talk about trying to get it up on iTunes – we are in the process of giving it another shot. We’ll see what happens this time! It would be a shame if we never get to put it out there – we still regularly receive fan mail and requests for the song.
What kind of mind set did you have to get yourself into to work on getting the perfect score for this movie?
Heavy. Introspective.
When we landed the film I was temporarily living in Ohio – working at Oberlin College as a Visiting Professor of the TIMARA Department (Technology In Music And Related Arts – basically music composition). One of my previous teachers went on sabbatical and I took his place for a semester. Being in the Ohioan climate really helped with my mindset. I am always very inspired by weather (which makes me wonder why I lived in LA for so long!!). Feeling that heavy humidity and heat, seeing huge thunderhead clouds floating above you, hearing distant crackling thunder ripping through the sky (and wondering, hoping that it’s coming your way), rain storms, seeing the leaves change color and fall to the ground, the barren trees, smelling the damp leaves rotting on the ground, the crisp smell of the first snow and the sound of snowflakes falling and hitting the ground. I love it. It really puts me in an awesome place for writing – definitely helped with the introspective part. Also the housing in Ohio is a lot more charming and romantically tattered. I remember first writing the bass line for Blue Theme in my makeshift home studio there. The wood floorboards were so warped that I had to struggle to keep my rolly studio chair from drifting down into my keyboard, which is especially difficult when you’re trying to balance a bass on your lap and click the record button all at the same time.
Also, since the film was being shot and edited in LA, I travelled back there for meetings and to write and record the soundtrack with the girls two weekends of the month for about 4 months. I love flying – I’ve often thought that I’m at my most creative when 40,000 feet in the air. Melodies and lyrics fly through my head and I have to struggle to get it all down. I wrote quite a few things for the film on the plane. And I’m sure the jet lag contributed to my mindset too. Arriving in LA and being dead tired… sleeping on Mariana’s floor for an hour before we began a writing session…
As a huuuuuuuuuge Jeremy Renner fan, like right from the very start when he appeared onscreen in National Lampoon’s Senior Trip (haha), I have to ask…what was he like to work with and how absolutely gorgeous is he in real life? Also what is your favourite out of all of his performances to date?
I met him a handful of times, but never really had a chance to get to know him. (I definitely don’t think he’d know who I was if you mentioned my name to him … lol) He definitely was an attractive guy in person.
I honestly haven’t seen him in very many films, but out of all of the ones that I have seen, I really do still think that Dahmer is one of his best performances.
Post Dahmer you released the album This Side of North with your Dahmer collaborators Marianna Bernoski and Willow Williamson…this is one of the single most perfect albums of all time in my humble opinion. Here’s a difficult question for you though, if you had to recommend one song off that album to a newbie, what would you pick?
That is a very difficult question. To introduce people to This Side of North, I’d pick from Come Around the Island, Five Four, or Driving, or Under the Covers. Probably Driving? It’s really hard to pick because I love all the songs. Several of them reflect the collaborative writing the girls and I did (like the ones I just listed), and others are more examples of my own writing style – Love Affair with the Sun, Silence as the Storm Calms, & Under Cover.
You have a new band now, Luna Vida. Again, loving everything I’ve heard so far. What are your hopes for the future of the band and would you like to do any TV/Film work with them…or are you just happy gigging it up and going with the flow?
Hopes for the band – Number one, I just want to enjoy playing and creating with my band mates regardless of “music business” success. It’s been such a long road for me back to feeling comfortable with music, deriving pleasure from playing and creating. I don’t want to let that go no matter what happens. That’s not to say that I don’t want that commercial success, but it’s no longer a driving force in my life. I think all of the members of Luna Vida (Ryan Anton, Matt Rogers, and myself) would love it if our upcoming album reached a wide audience– and even better if we could quit our day jobs and focus all day on writing! (Though I would miss doing flips with my students at my current day jobJ We aren’t gigging at the moment – just writing, recording songs, and endlessly working on lyrics (we write so much material that it’s hard to keep up). We’re planning on releasing our first album in late 2011 or early 2012. I hope that a few of the songs get placed on TV programs or in Films.
As for me, I am excited about the idea of writing for TV and Film again, but no opportunities have come up yet. I really want to write for a feature length Sci-Fi or psychological thriller-type film – I think that would be extraordinarily fun and I’d be really good at it.
Is there anyone whom you would love to work with, be it either in the movie or music industry?
Beck. Foo Fighters. Cliff Martinez. Steven Soderbergh. Arvo Pärt. I know there are so many more…
I’m really bad at remember names of things so I can’t offer you too much here. This would literally take me hours to get you a good answer.
What else can we expect to see/hear from you over this coming year?
I’m pretty focused on Luna Vida, though I do get calls and write music for commercials from time to time – none of my tracks have been selected recently for any of the final commercials, but you know never know! I also have been craving to make some ambient/textural music – lots of guitar. Fun!
And last but not least, who is your ultimate favourite woman in horror, be it an actress, director, composer, writer…anyone? And also, if you had to pick, what’s your favourite horror movie?
Again, I’m pretty crummy when it comes to names of films or people. I’m the kind of person who says, “… you know that film where there’s that guy and then he gets chased around in that city”. I can however sing you soundtrack themes and songs left and right.
OK – Off the top of my head – I loved the soundtrack to “The Shining” by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind.
Does funny horror count? I love Anna Farris.
Favorite horror movie – gosh… I don’t know. I don’t really like “horror” movies. I get scared, I yell at the actors on the movie screen (ex., “the bad guy is right behind you – you idiot!! Turn around!!), I grab fellow movie-watchers, and have bad dreams. I enjoy psychological thrillers - like Silence of the Lambs – even though they still give me bad dreams and creep me out. And Sci-Fi horror. And I love funny horror…
So I have decided to compose a series of what I consider to be the most beautiful film endings of all time. Now me being me, obviously they are not going to be to everyone's taste however, hi di ho, they're mine!!! So here I start with one of my ultimate most favourite EVER, the surreal, gorgeous and stupidly underrated Dahmer!!!
Dahmer - The scene where we see him walking through the woods at the end - having given up on help before he'd even really started to receive it. What made this such a perfect place to end the movie was that where this should have been a time in his life where like any young man, he was looking forward. But knowing what was to come, and cutting out at that moment...it left you with such a feeling of empty hopelessness. Of haunting melancholy and great sadness, the kind that I love so dearly in my movies. I can honestly say I have seen this film pretty much more than most other films ever...not sure what that says about me but what the hey, I love Jeff!!! Dahmer is proof that Jeremy Renner is without a shadow of a doubt one of the single greatest actors of all time. It just took the rest of the world a little bit longer to realise this.
To complete the perfection of this ending you add the music….one of the most gorgeous songs of all time. It’s perfect; it’s haunting and so beautiful that I can’t imagine any other song replacing it. On so many occasions I can remember watching the movie and then afterwards when it went back to the title screen, I would just sit and listen to Blue Theme, the song from the end credits. By Siren Music Productions who did the whole score, it’s perfect. I was so in love with it I went out of my way trying to get hold of it. I finally came across the girl’s website through a link on the Dahmer movie page. I emailed them and soon heard back from Willow Williamson who told me that you couldn’t actually buy the CD but if I purchased one of the bands albums, she would send me a copy of it. Instantly I purchased not one, but two copies of the self-titled This Side of North album. One for myself, and one for my dear friend Nia. I can honestly say that this is one of the best things I ever did. The album is flawless and I love it dearly. I swear that when I die, I want this album in my coffin. It’s that good. And it pains me to say how seriously underrated the band are, and indeed each member individually. I have spoken to Christina Agamanolis on a number of occasions and she is adorable. I hope that somewhere our paths shall cross as she is a true inspiration to me, plus I’d LOVE to see her play live!!!
